Word: trenton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like an oldtime anti-slavery meeting in the New Jersey Assembly chamber at Trenton one day last week. The crowd whooped and hissed, not quite aware where its humanitarian instincts ceased and where its sectional fervor began. Georgia had come to take Robert Elliott Burns back to one of its notorious chain gangs. Almost everybody in New Jersey thought he had a good idea of what a chain gang was like. The case of Arthur Maillefert, 22-year-old New Jersey boy who died last summer in a Florida sweatbox, was fresh in mind (TIME, Oct. 24). Radio and Press...
...highly exaggerated account of his own experiences. His publishers and film executives refused to reveal his whereabouts to police. But lately he gave a lecture at Westfield, N. J. in conjunction with the showing of his film. And growing yet bolder, last month he attended a luncheon at Trenton, sat next to Superintendent Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf of New Jersey's State police...
...Trenton, Governor Moore issued a startling announcement. The Burns story was an old one to him. Thrice had he been visited by the fugitive and his brother, a preacher of Palisade, N. J. "About a year ago they came to me," said the Governor, "and asked that I give Burns a chance. . . . Last summer they came to see me at Sea Girt. Yesterday they came back again. It was then that Burns told me he feared he might be arrested at any time. He said he had been tipped off by a reporter. Again I told him that the case...
...president of the Roebling Co., but treasurer, and was the smartest of all in a business way, although he had his full share of weaknesses, one of which was to quarrel with me frequently. However, in the 37 years I have been at the newspaper bench nearly everybody in Trenton has quarrelled with me at some time. As to Ferdinand W. Roebling Jr., now at the head of the company, he is not only the biggest giver, both publicly and privately to worthwhile things, but he invariably wears a dinner jacket when the Roeblings entertain small parties...
...Trenton Times Trenton...